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'''Helen Mirra''' is an American [[Conceptual art|conceptual artist]]. |
'''Helen Mirra''' is an American [[Conceptual art|conceptual artist]]. |
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She was born in [[Rochester, New York]] in 1970. She graduated from [[Bennington College]] in 1991, majoring in studio art and contemporary art history and she received her MFA in studio art from the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] in 1996. Her first solo gallery exhibition was in Chicago in 1999 and included a 16mm silent film, textile works, and the vinyl record ''Along, Below'', all relating to geography.<ref>{{cite journal|last1 = Palmer|first1 = Laurie|title = Helen Mirra|journal = Frieze|date = May 1999|issue = 46|url = http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/helen_mirra/}}</ref> |
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Helen Mirra participated in the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. She has had solo exhibitions at the [[Berkeley Art Museum]], [[Haus Konstruktiv]] in Zürich, the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]], and [[Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art]] in Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/gehend_field_recordings_1_3_56|title = Helen Mirra, gehend|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>. |
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Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking. She participated in the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. She has had solo exhibitions at the [[Berkeley Art Museum]], [[Haus Konstruktiv]] in Zürich, the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]], and [[Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art]] in Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/gehend_field_recordings_1_3_56|title = Helen Mirra, gehend|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>. |
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A fifteen-year survey of her work, [http://www.culturgest.pt/arquivo/2014/expos/helenmirra.html ''Edge Habitat''], was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication ''Edge Habitat Materials'' was published by WhiteWalls.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo20700535.html|title = Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = University of Chicago Press|last = |first = }}</ref> |
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Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley<ref>{{Cite web|title = ARC Visiting Artists|url = http://arts.berkeley.edu/?page_id=80|accessdate = }}</ref>, with the DAAD in Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|title = Berliner Künstlerprogramm|url = http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veroeffentlichungen.php|website = |accessdate = }}</ref>, and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum<ref>{{Cite web|title = Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mirra, Helen|url = http://www.gardnermuseum.org/contemporary_art/artists/helen_mirra|website = |accessdate = |first = |last = }}</ref>. |
Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley<ref>{{Cite web|title = ARC Visiting Artists|url = http://arts.berkeley.edu/?page_id=80|accessdate = }}</ref>, with the DAAD in Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|title = Berliner Künstlerprogramm|url = http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veroeffentlichungen.php|website = |accessdate = }}</ref>, and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum<ref>{{Cite web|title = Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mirra, Helen|url = http://www.gardnermuseum.org/contemporary_art/artists/helen_mirra|website = |accessdate = |first = |last = }}</ref>. |
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She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060424.mirra.shtml|title = Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus|date = March 31, 2006|accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and as Loeb Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University<ref>{{Cite web|title = Visual and Environmental Studies faculty|url = http://static.fas.harvard.edu/registrar/courses/VisualandEnvironmentalStudies.html|website = |accessdate = }}</ref>. |
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==Selected exhibitions== |
==Selected exhibitions== |
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Revision as of 23:44, 25 September 2015
Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist.
She was born in Rochester, New York in 1970. She graduated from Bennington College in 1991, majoring in studio art and contemporary art history and she received her MFA in studio art from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996. Her first solo gallery exhibition was in Chicago in 1999 and included a 16mm silent film, textile works, and the vinyl record Along, Below, all relating to geography.[1]
Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking. She participated in the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. She has had solo exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin[2].
A fifteen-year survey of her work, Edge Habitat, was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication Edge Habitat Materials was published by WhiteWalls.[3]
Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley[4], with the DAAD in Berlin[5], and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum[6].
She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago[7] and as Loeb Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University[8].
Selected exhibitions
- Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society, May 6–June 24, 2001
- Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 21 - December 8, 2002[9]
- Hourly Directional with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center, February 7 - April 6, 2014
- Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 24 - June 6 & September 2-October 17, 2014
- Waulked, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, September 11 - October 25, 2014[10]
- Helen Mirra, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, August 20 - September 26, 2015[11]
References
- ^ Palmer, Laurie (May 1999). "Helen Mirra". Frieze (46).
- ^ "Helen Mirra, gehend".
- ^ "Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009". University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "ARC Visiting Artists".
- ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm".
- ^ "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mirra, Helen".
- ^ "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
- ^ "Visual and Environmental Studies faculty".
- ^ Richard, Frances (2002). "From Land and Sound to Thought" (PDF). Whitney Museum brochure.
- ^ Farzin, Media (October 13, 2014). "Helen Mirra's "Waulked"". Art Agenda.
- ^ Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.
External links
- Official website
- Peter Eleey, Reference Material, Frieze Magazine, January 2006:146-9
- Conversation with Emmalea Russo, artcritical, September 13 2015